I just started using it after not using it for about 5 years. I used to use HaxeFlixel for making small pixel art games but moved on to heaps.

I'd say it's better than ever! I'm not a big VSCode user but it has some really nice integrations that it convinced me to use VSCode.

Here's an article on a neat stack that Shiro games uses https://haxe.org/blog/shirogames-stack/